Terrorist in the Eyes of Some: An Examination of the Quebec City Mosque Shooting and the Christchurch Shootings
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The rise in right-wing extremism and violence against religious and ethnic minorities in Western countries has sparked a debate around how mainstream news media label these incidents. Are they reported as shootings or acts of terrorism? Drawing on news media framing theory, I conduct a content analysis of three mainstream Canadian news publications to understand how they reported on the Quebec City mosque shooting in 2017, the Christchurch shootings in 2019, while using the Parliament Hill shooting in 2014 as a backdrop for my analysis. In this study, I found that while there are attempts to challenge the War on Terror frame that has dominated the news, there is still a reservation to apply the terrorism frame to white-supremacist attacks, even when the perpetrators have been charged with terrorism.
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